woodWOP
woodWOP is the programming software Homag supplies for its machining centres, and the .mpr file it writes is the part program those machines load. It is used across the group, so a program written in woodWOP is equally at home on a Homag, Weeke or Brandt processing centre.
- Type
- Programming software
- Based in
- Germany
- Part of
- Homag Group
- Programmed with
- woodWOP
- Machine control
- powerControl, powerTouch
- File formats
- .mpr
What woodWOP produces
A woodWOP program is a single plain-text file describing one panel and everything done to it. Nothing about it is hidden: the header names the format version and the panel, a variables block names the panel dimensions, and each operation is a block naming the macro that performs it and the values it needs. Because the panel dimensions are named rather than fixed, a program can be resized without being rewritten, which is why shops keep libraries of woodWOP programs rather than one file per part.
Version 4.0, and why the version matters
The header states the format version, and netool writes and checks against 4.0. This is not a formality. A reader that assumes the wrong version can misread a block it does not recognise, and a writer that emits a version the machine's woodWOP does not know will be refused at the door. If you are converting into MPR, it is worth confirming which version the software on your machine expects before assuming the output will open.
Small details that stop a file opening
Three of them, and none of them is about the machining. woodWOP expects the code page Windows used rather than UTF-8, so accented characters in a comment come out wrong if the file is written in the modern encoding. Lines end with a carriage return and a line feed; a file with line feeds alone opens as an empty panel rather than raising an error, which is worse than a refusal because it looks like a converted program that simply lost its work. And the file must end with a single exclamation mark, or woodWOP treats it as cut off.
What netool writes into an MPR
netool converts Xilog Plus XXL and Morbidelli PGM programs into MPR, translating moves, remapping the panel faces from a numeric side selector to woodWOP's directional edge names, rebuilding arcs by radius instead of centre offsets, and inverting the contour depth so it is measured up from the underside. Each of those is a place a conversion can go quietly wrong, so each one is reported rather than assumed.
What it will not claim
The MPR writer follows the published description of the format and the shape of programs woodWOP itself writes. No file netool has produced has yet been opened in woodWOP or run on a Homag machine, and every conversion says so on the result rather than in the small print. The 56 reason codes report anything else declined along the way. This is a deliberate position: a converter that labels what it has not proven is more useful than one that guesses and stays quiet about it.
File formats on this site
.mprwoodWOP MPR
Converters for these formats
XXL to MPR converter
Turn a Xilog Plus XXL program into a woodWOP .mpr program for Homag, Weeke and Brandt machines.
Open toolPGM to MPR converter
Turn a compiled Morbidelli PGM program into a woodWOP .mpr program for Homag, Weeke and Brandt machines.
Open toolMPR to XXL converter
Turn a woodWOP .mpr program into a Xilog Plus XXL program for SCM and Morbidelli machines.
Open toolMPR to PGM converter
Turn a woodWOP .mpr program into a compiled Morbidelli PGM program for SCM and Morbidelli machines.
Open toolMPR to G-code converter
Turn a woodWOP MPR program into plain ISO G-code for routers that take it.
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Common questions
What is a woodWOP MPR file?
It is the part program woodWOP writes for a Homag Group machining centre: plain text, one panel per file, with a header, a block of named panel dimensions and one block per operation. It opens in any text editor as well as in woodWOP.
How do I open an MPR file?
In woodWOP if you have it, and in any text editor if you do not, since the file is plain text. Reading the geometry from the text takes some practice, mainly because contour depths are written as the material left standing under the cut rather than as the depth of the cut.
Can I convert an XXL or PGM file to MPR?
Yes. netool converts Xilog Plus XXL and Morbidelli PGM to woodWOP MPR in the browser, handling the face remapping, the arc rebuild and the depth inversion. The output has not yet been confirmed on a real machine, so open it in woodWOP and inspect it before running it.
Which MPR version does netool write?
Version 4.0, which is the version the writer was built against and checks for. If the woodWOP on your machine expects a different version, confirm that before relying on a converted file.
Is netool affiliated with woodWOP or Homag?
No. netool is an independent converter. woodWOP, Homag, Weeke and Brandt are trademarks of their owner and are named here only to describe the file formats netool reads and writes.